Airport searches unlikely to change despite protests
Lewis DiuguidState lawmakers aren’t at all happy with federal gun control efforts, Obamacare, the Environmental Protection Agency and a host of other big government intrusions.
Kansas Rep. Brett Hildabrand is adding to that list, railing in a bill against security screenings at airports. Extensive searches, metal detector use, pat-downs and X-ray devices were beefed up after the Sept. 11, 2001, disaster in which terroists took over commercial airliners and flew them into buildings in New York City and Washington, D.C., and a field in Pennsylvania.
Hildabrand thinks the aggressive security has gone too far, distressing some passengers who pose no threat to air travel, The Kansas City Star reports. But who is a terrorist and who isn’t?
Hildabrand’s bill actually has all of the force of a loud, media amplified belch. Even bringing it up in line at any airport will likely trigger (probably the wrong word) a more extensive search for the complainer by airport security.
In all cases, it’s best to keep your head down, mouth shut, smile stupidly and move along. It will be interesting to see how Hildabrand is treated at the airport by security the next time he tries to board a flight.
“Sir, can you step out of line, please,” a security officer might tell him, and then use a code in his airport security radio to announce that we got that knucklehead from Kansas.
George Hunsucker
Northland
3 months, 1 week agoYou can add to the reasons for dislike the FACT that TSA has to approve of who the security is provided by. Airport security should be staffed by private enterprise not more overpaid government bureaucrats….
Kent Mueller
3 months, 1 week agoLewis, you write like you condone government workers targeting people in their duties for things that have noting to do with their task. That is a very scary thing.
And you are willing to just get in line and smile? How interesting it is that it used to be the left that questioned government. But no more.